Individual Protection

Life expectancy in the US fell by a full year in the first half of 2020, latest estimates show. Experts say the growing coronavirus pandemic is behind the drop to 77.8 years....

Businesses will have to find new ways of monitoring and managing sickness absence as a result of the pandemic, one of the country’s most senior scientists has said. As society adapts to...

A total of 65 MPs have signed a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, urging him to recognise long-Covid as an occupational disease. And they have said workers who are suffering after...

Over 58% of IFAs expect demand to increase for tax and estate planning advice over the next five years, research shows. A further 39% of advisers expect demand to remain the same,...

Royal London paid £13.1m for Covid-19 claims in 2020 helping the families of more than 2,100 customers. The majority of the claims (2,110) were death claims with 2,049 paid out on whole...

The current pandemic has left two in three over-50s “determined” to stay living in their own home if they ever need care, researchers say. But six in ten (60%) of over-50s polled...

PRIMIS Mortgage Network – the financial adviser group – this week said that queries about income protection products covering multiple and complex medical conditions were partly behind an 18% surge in requests...

Entries are now open for the UK Health & Protection Awards 2021 – and financial advisers and employee benefit consultancies large and small are invited to put forward submissions outlining how they...

IPipeline, the provider of life and pensions digital solutions and services provider, has formed a partnership with Wipro, the global IT, consulting and business process services company. The aim of the partnership...

There has been a huge surge in demand for expert financial advice as a result of the Covid pandemic, research suggests, with consumers far more interested in expertise protection than wealth management...